Comments on: Senate Panel Authorizes Stronger Iran Sanctionshttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/
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By: Mark Wilkes Barre PAhttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/comment-page-1/#comment-1599315
Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:02:31 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/#comment-1599315The bottom line is , this spells the end of the campaign promise of President Obama. There will be no troops coming home just to be sent back along with the war machine in months or so left in the presidents time frame, to secure a more than possible new war front.
Failure # ? for this administration.
not withstanding, the 30 year old mistakes of all the other administrations that make up our domestic economic woes.
Breaking the public trust to win elections wont sit well in the mid-terms and next general election. Either will continueing to ignore the fact that americans don’t need or want what this administration is trying to push down our throats.
]]>By: Mark Wilkes Barre PAhttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/comment-page-1/#comment-1599311
Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:50:02 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/#comment-1599311Moving troops to new war fronts by the current president doesnt count as getting troops out or home from afganistan than mission accomplished banners count as winning in Iraq for the former president
]]>By: Mark Wilkes Barre PAhttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/comment-page-1/#comment-1599209
Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:53:23 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/#comment-1599209The continued occupancy of Afganistan while domestic winds of political insecurity by Two administrations now, stagnate any progress, goals or even a plan.
Allows Iran, Pakastan, or others a sure footing.
]]>By: Saint Michael Travelerhttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/comment-page-1/#comment-1599051
Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:15:15 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/#comment-1599051The hideous play of hypocrisy

Any prospect for a non-belligerent foreign policy by US congress toward Iran is not expected. The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Wednesday passed the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act, a bill targeting Tehran and the firms conducting energy business with Iran. The recent bill, part of a larger effort to hurt Iranian people, was instigated to force Iran to abandon her nuclear enrichment program. Those who voted for the bill assumed that they were giving the Obama administration stronger powers to sanction companies that provide Iranian people gasoline, diesel and other refined petroleum fuels.

The bill would give a legitimate reason to Iran to fear US government sincerity for fair play. This action is a hideous expression of hypocrisy [http://straveler-myamerica.blogspot.com/]. I suggest the following three steps to correct our failed foreign policy with respect to the Middle East:

1. Nuclear Fuel Cycle Iranian Consortium:
USA should join the consortium among others Japan, Germany, France and England to actively monitor the Iranian fuel cycle activity too. IAEA has consistently asserted that the agency could not find any indications that Iran is diverting the fuel cycle for nuclear bomb development. Iran has asserted that their activities are limited to development of fuel for nuclear reactor.

2. Nuclear Shield
An international nuclear shield for all nations in the Middle East, including Iran, from nuclear bomb states;

3. A nuclear- bomb-free Middle East
This action will remove any pressure from Iran to develop nuclear bomb in the future for deterrence against nuclear bomb Israeli state.

President Harry Truman in 1946 gave this statement about nuclear bomb:

“It is a terrible weapon, and it should not be used on innocent men, women and children who have nothing whatever to do with this military aggression. That happens when it is used.” He was referring to using the bomb on Japan.

Our representative in the Congress must stop the hideous play of hypocrisy and face the facts in the Middle East. Israel has nuclear bombs, not Iran.

]]>By: DWhttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/comment-page-1/#comment-1598597
Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:23:50 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/#comment-1598597The threat to the world is not Iran. It is the nuclear weapons, and those who make it and poses it. To be a bully and to say USA and his buddies can have it, Russia, China, UK, France, and not to mention Iran’s neighbors in three direction but not Iran, is recipe for disaster. This will give Iran more motivation to acquire nuclear weapons just like her neighbors (wouldn’t you?). Disarm the armed! NO COUNTRY should be allowed to have them, if we want to live in peace. America, should set an example for Iran and the world by starting to dismantling its own arsenal of thousands of nuclear bombs and stop being such a hypocrite.
]]>By: plus6sigmahttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/comment-page-1/#comment-1598513
Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:18:45 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/#comment-1598513The base of the Crusades evidently moved to America, the most primitively religious of all rich nations.
— Steve Bolger

We have two fundamentalist extremists worshiping the same God of Abraham attempting to manipulate two governments into forcefully proving their misinterpretation of spirituality is superior to the other.

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Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:18:10 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/#comment-1598411We have two fundamentalist extremists worshiping the same God of Abraham using different misinterpretations and thinking its OK, and even sanctioned, to kill and maim in His name. When technology outpaces maturation from primeval tribalism, serious problems can occur.
]]>By: Steve Bolgerhttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/comment-page-1/#comment-1598319
Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:09:24 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/#comment-1598319The base of the Crusades evidently moved to America, the most primitively religious of all rich nations.
]]>By: Mark Wilkes Barre PAhttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/comment-page-1/#comment-1598309
Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:02:58 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/#comment-1598309Bernie Becker,
There has already been many comments and threads discussing Iran.
Not allowing mine or others here, doesn’t make the already allowed comments on other threads less credible.
Besides, to any one who might be Just now , reading of these Authorized stronger sanctions, or, comments on it to help imform themselves an educated opinion,
7 comments will hardly do.
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Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:05:18 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/#comment-1598253I just don’t think the folks in Iran are scared of the United States. I’m not expecting the US to do anything except spew and froth and rattle sabers because it is all it can do in its self-induced weakened position. The perpetrated fraud in Iraq was the best gift the US could give to Iran’s unwanted regime. — Augustino Vente Y Cinco, Ph.D. ContraIntelligence
]]>By: Rogethttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/comment-page-1/#comment-1598117
Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:52:49 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/#comment-1598117Iran is bound and dtermined to construct a nuclear device that will be used for only one reason. Listen to the ongoing invective against Israel. Listen to the posturing and backtracking coming from Tehran. They are doing exactly what they want to do, and all the “diplomacy “in the world won’t change it. Sanctify all you want, and they will continue down this path. When they deploy this weapon, the world changes for the worse in a myriad of ways, not the least of which is the prospect of a brightly glowing middle east. While the rest of the world backs off from this possibility, Iran forges ahead. So it is written in the Quram.
]]>By: DWhttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/comment-page-1/#comment-1597809
Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:45:14 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/#comment-1597809This is a great hypocrisy and the world knows it! US and its so called allies have no right to tell Iran what to do, especially when it comes to nuclear technology or weapons. US is the only country that actually has dropped nuclear bombs in cities full of innocent people and maintains thousands of these WMDs in its war arsenal. On the other hand, Iran has not attacked any country for hundreds of years, something you can not say about USA. All this is happening while US pretends to be reaching out to Iran. So much for unclenching your fist.
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Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:53:10 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/#comment-1597727This is totally wrong. We need to push Iran toward development that is the core of their goals in regard to nuclear development. an Industrialized Iran will be moderated and its population will be able to sense the security they been looking for. Their preoccupation with their stigma of being under siege and attack by the West will be reduced and their defensive posturing will be lowered and with that they will be less threatening and belligerent with the West.

Their drive toward industrialization and modernization is very well apparent and our Sanctions and offensive posturing toward their goal is only being seen by the Iranians as an attempt to keep them down and keep treating them as a 3rd world nation which they resent. BUT, that may be our goal in the first place?!

]]>By: Steve Bolgerhttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/comment-page-1/#comment-1597679
Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:04:07 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/#comment-1597679What is the rational reaction of any government caught in a pincers of two foreign occupations by the same power of adjacent countries, Jane Smith?
]]>By: Jane Smithhttp://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/comment-page-1/#comment-1597523
Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:28:11 +0000http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/senate-panel-authorizes-stronger-iran-sanctions/#comment-1597523Obama’s plan of talking to Iran is not working?
It is impossible to talk to Islamic fanatics as negotiations with anyone assume rational behavior, these terrorist nations (Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan etc.) are not rational.
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